The LeRoy Police Department has received reports of bear sightings in the area around HartwoodPark. A resident of the housing tract Presidential Acres called today to say his bird feeders were destroyed and footprints in the wet grass went back to the wooded area behind the home.

The DEC was contacted. It recommends residents ensure that all garbage outside is either secured or brought in. Also bird feeders, while they can be out during the day, need to be brought in at night, everynight.

It says bears are intelligent animals and once they determine the location of an easy meal, they will come back continually.